In Search of Myself
Book Details
| Title: | In Search of Myself | ||||||||
| Author: |
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| Published: | 1946 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited | ||||||||
| Tags: | autobiography, Governor General's Literary Award, non-fiction, New Canadian Library | ||||||||
| Description: | In Search of Myself, in part a sequel to Grove's A Search for America (1927), was ostensibly autobiographical, but the self Grove sought was a complicated one. As a cultivated European immigrant, Grove looked back on his life and attempted to explain and justify his failure to realize his youthful promise and attain his early dreams. The book begins with an account of his affluent childhood and reckless youth among the artistic and literary members of European society. This golden past is sharply contrasted with Grove's adventures as a menial itinerant worker in the U.S.A., and finally with his poverty-stricken, isolated life as an immigrant teacher, lecturer, writer and part-time farmer in the uncongenial Canadian wilderness.
The book won the Governor General's Award for nonfiction in 1946, but the presence of puzzling inconsistencies and omissions eventually led Canadian scholar D.O. Spettigue to investigate Grove's self-revelations.--goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 37 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 298  |
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